Corporations are not people. They don’t have feelings.
Maybe their idea is that publicly embarrassing oligarch boss of that company would be more effective in getting them to either use source code or buying a license
Geodad@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Then they would have needed to do something to publicly embarrass the company; so far they’ve only publicly embarrassed themselves
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Real talk. Open source FREE FUCKING TRIAL‽ Like it’s the very least you could do is close that one obvious, glaring, foreseeable loophole. I mean if they had one half way decent developer, they could’ve just created their own version with an in hours GUI.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
For that to have any impact, the abusing company leadership would need to have the ability to feel some level of shame. I honestly believe that most don’t have any ability for that.
fullsquare@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
consider the following: they already don’t get money from them and also showing to wide audience that musk (and his people at spacex) is a inept penny-pinching scumbag can be a nice hobby
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wait this is SpaceX? I thought it was another company tbh, I was under the impression that SpaceX revenue was in the billion at this point.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure the 100s of millions was referring to back in 2015 or so when they started abusing the free trials.
fullsquare@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
wait, i missed that, but then idk why it got called “semi-governmental”
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Oh, absolutely, but it’s still an exercise in futility if the goal is to have any impact on the offending company’s demeanor and course of action.